FONEMA CONSORT PERFORMS COLUMBIA COMPOSERS

• Saturday, March 28, 2020
• 8:00 PM  10:00 PM

POSTPONED

Fonema Consort is thrilled to collaborate with the Columbia Composers on the premieres of four new works by Jessie Cox, Fjola Evans, Louis Goldford and Laure Hiendl.


THE FREQUENCY SERIES PRESENTS VISTAS FURTIVAS: THE MUSIC OF JUAN CAMPOVERDE ALBUM RELEASE

• Sunday, February 16, 2020
• 8:30 PM  10:00 PM
• Constellation (map)

Fonema Consort’s third album, Vistas furtivas, is a portrait album of their long-time collaborate, Ecuadorian composer Juan Campoverde. Campoverde’s music is full of deep, secretive, and lush magic. Spiritually, it is birdlike: lyrical, rapidly changing between textures, constantly on the wing. Released with New Focus Recordings, and supported generously by a City of Chicago DCASE grant.


THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO AND GOETHE INSTITUT PRESENT FONEMA CONSORT AND THE MUSIC OF PETER ABLINGER

• Friday, January 24, 2020
• 8:00 PM  9:00 PM
• University of Chicago Logan Center Performance Penthouse (map)

Composer Peter Ablinger and Chicago-based new music group Fonema Consort will delve together into an array of meanings of the human voice that preoccupy both parties – a clash of artistic worlds having in common the challenge of performative and perceptual notions in music. The sexagenarian composer – one whose creative output intersects the modernist and conceptual, performative and technological – will create a new piece for the ensemble, drawing from previous reflections on the meaning of song.

The soundscape of cities are songs in his Cityopera; recordings of speeches by iconic 20th century personalities are songs in his "song cycle of sorts" “Voices and Piano”; and in his “Weiss/Weisslich 17” (2015) for soprano and noise, the singer takes on an instrumental role, only uttering sustained notes of various durations against morphing backgrounds of white noise. The “Weiss/Weisslich” series explores noise as a source of massive information upon which the listener can extract or carve their own "song."

The project is made possible with the generous support of the Goethe Institut, the Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, and the Amphion Foundation.

Program
Doo-doo-dooh – Peter Ablinger, world premiere
Weiss/Weisslich 17 (selections) – Peter Ablinger
The flaw that bears the building – Fernanda Aoki Navarro
Partial Response – Chiyoko Slavnics


THE MEXICAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE PRESENTS JULIO ESTRADA'S ENSEMBLE YUUNOHUI

• Thursday, November 21, 2019
• 6:45 PM  7:45 PM
• Mexican Cultural Institute of Washington DC (map)

Fonema is proud to present the world premiere of Yuunohui'sa the final piece in Mexican composer Julio Estrada’s monumental work, the Yuunohui cycle. Yuunohui’sa was commissioned with the friendly support of the Ernst von Siemens Foundation. The program also features an exceprt from Estrada’s opera Murmullos de Páramo, “Mictlan”, as well as a rarely heard work by Argentinian composer Graciela Paraskevaídis (Sin ir más lejos). We are grateful for the support of the Mexican Cultural Institute of Washington D.C. for presenting and supporting this performance; and for the generous support of the Ernst von Siemens Foundation which funded the commission of “Yuunohui’sa”.

Program
Ensemble Yuunohui: Yuunohui’sa’ehecatl’nahui’tlapoa – Julio Estrada
Mictlan – Julio Estrada
Sin ir más lejos – Graciela Paraskevaidís


Saint Xavier University Residency Concert

• Thursday, September 26, 2019
• 12:30 PM  1:30 PM
• Saint Xavier University McGuire Hall (map)

In their 7th annual residency at Saint Xavier University, Fonema Consort’s Nina Dante and Dalia Chin present a range of modern works for voice and flute.

   
The Frequency Series presents Fonema Consort

• Sunday, May 26, 2019
• 8:30 PM  11:30 PM
• Constellation (map)

Fonema Consort and Chicago-based Ursa Ensemble join forces to present Cassandra Miller's eerie, suspense-to-nowhere work bel canto.  In addition to this work, each ensemble will curate a set of their own repertoire, weaving a larger atmosphere around this centerpiece.

Program
Juan Campoverde // Los lugares del deseo (v 2) // voice, flute, clarinet, guitar // 2017
Nina Dante // With her waist wreathed in shadow // voice, flute // 2019
Cassandra Miller // bel canto // voice, flute, clarinet, guitar, violin, viola, cello // 2011
Ivan Sparrow // entre las grietas // voice, clarinet, guitar // 2014
and a performance of the Jean Cras string trio by Ursa Ensemble


Premieres by Columbia University Undergraduate Composers

• Monday, April 29, 2019
• 8:00 PM  10:00 PM
• Symphony Space Thalia Theater (map)

Fonema Consort premieres new works from the undergraduate composition studio of Georg Haas.


University of Florida Residency Concert

• Friday, March 29, 2019
• 6:30 PM  8:30 PM
• The University of Florida Friends of Music Hall (map)

Fonema performs works by University of Florida composition students Diogo Carvalho and Jordan Alexander Key alongside pieces from our repertoire.


New Music Miami Festival presents Fonema Consort

• Wednesday, March 27, 2019
• 7:30 PM  9:30 PM
• Miami Beach Urban Studios (map)

Fonema Consort presents a program for voice, flute and double bass anchored by the world premiere of visionary Mexican composer Julio Estrada's Yuunohui'sa'ehecatl'nahui. The program additionally features new trios by Pablo Santiago Chin, Louis Goldford; and  duos by Katherine Balch and Stratis Minakakis.

Our warmest thank for the support of the Ernst von Siemens Foundation who made the Estrada commission possible; and the Amphion Foundation, which is supporting our Estrada performance activities this season.


Elastic Arts presents Fonema Consort

• Friday, November 16, 2018
• 9:00 PM  11:00 PM
• Elatic Arts (map)

In “The unknown, my flaws, your building...”, Fonema Consort delves into the expressive musical potential that lies in the convergence of painting and language, the voice and poetry. This program takes as its starting point the work of iconic Latin American creators Clarice Lispector, Roberto Matta, and Chavela Vargas. At the center of the program is Richard Barrett’s virtuosic tour de force Coïgitum, which took its inspiration from Chilean painter Roberto Matta’s large-scale homonymous work. Featured are new works by Fernanda Aoki Navarro, Pablo Santiago Chin, and an excerpt from McKnight Fellow Tiffany Skidmore’s opera-in-the-making.

Program
Richard Barrett // Coïgitum // voice, flute, oboe d'amore, piano, percussion // 1984
Pablo Santiago Chin // Si Chavela met Matta II // voice, piano, percussion // 2018 (world premiere)
Fernanda Aoki Navarro // New work // voice, piano, percussion // 2018 (world premiere)
Tiffany Skidmore // no stars // voice, flute, piano, percussion // 2016


ESS and the Poetry Foundation present Fonema Consort

• Wednesday, November 14, 2018
• 7:00 PM  8:00 PM
• The Poetry Foundation (map)

LECTURE-CONCERT: This fall Fonema Consort delves into the expressive musical potential that lies in the convergence of painting and language in a program of works that take as their starting point the work of iconic Latin American artists and writers Clarice Lispector, Roberto Matta, and Chavela Vargas. This listening session explores the particular linguistic devices and manipulations used in two newly commissioned pieces by Fernanda Aoki Navarro and Pablo Santiago Chin as well as a virtuosic tour-de-force by composer Richard Barrett. Navarro and Chin will draw connections between their approaches to language in composition and those used in various forms of poetry and prose, like the phonetic prominence in sound poetry, grammatical and formal transgression, and the exploration of song writing as literature as recently debated following the latest Nobel Prize edition.

      

Three Burials NY Album Release

• Saturday, May 5, 2018
• 8:00 PM  10:00 PM
• Spectrum (map)

Fonema + Spectrum Present: Three Burials - an album by the Chin siblings
May 5 at 8pm
Spectrum, 70 Flushing Ave, Brooklyn

Composer Pablo Santiago Chin compiles in an album his works for flute since the past ten years, ranging from solo works to chamber music and a flute concerto. Under the New Focus Recordings label, Three Burials features flutist Dalia Chin displaying a wide range of themes and techniques developed throughout the years in close collaboration with her brother, both founding members of Fonema. Departing from the homonymous work after which the concert is titled, Chin is joint by Fonema vocalist Nina Dante and guitarist Samuel Rowe to present works  by other composers also accompanied by video, but assuming different roles in relation to the music: video as score, as environment or as a narrative component.

PROGRAM
Canciones desde Xilitla (arranged excerpts) – Francisco Castillo Trigueros
Three Burials – Pablo Santiago Chin
Rupture | Rapture – Celeste Oram
Lamentos y reflejos – Valeria Jonard
Augury – Monte Weber

This project is partially supported by an Individual Artist Program Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events, as well as a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency, a state agency through federal funds provided by the National Endowment for the Arts.


Drew University Residency

• Tuesday, April 24, 2018
• 7:30 PM  10:30 PM
• Drew University Dorothy Young Center for the Arts Concert Hall (map)

Fonema Consort performs works by Chris Mercer, Valeria Jonard, Pablo Santiago Chin, and Celeste Oram.


Scripps College Residency and Performance

• Sunday, March 25, 2018
• 7:30 PM  9:30 PM
• Boone Recital Hall, Scripps College Performing Arts Center (map)

Along with Fonema’s Ecuadorian tour, our residency at Scripps College is another ramification of our North/South project, with the addition of a world premiere by Scripps alumnus and former student of Beat Furrer, Anna-Louise Walton. Expanding Scripps’ recent efforts to open spaces for the experience and discussion of new music on campus, Fonema Consort will complement their concert with master classes and a forum on “Contemporary Extended Instrumental Techniques and Radical Contemporary Music Aesthetics” as well as “Sound and Improvisation.”

PROGRAM
Umbra II – Matthew Arrellin world premiere
Basalto – Juan Campoverde
Lamentos y reflejos – Valeria Jonard
8 ejercicios para oír lo inaudible – Mesias Maiguashca
Nu le monde – Clara Olivares
Small Songs – Anna-Louise Walton world premiere

UCBerkeley and CNMAT present Fonema Consort

• Sunday, March 18, 2018
• 8:00 PM  10:00 PM
• CNMAT (map)

UC Berkeley and CNMAT present Fonema Consort’s soprano Nina Dante and saxophonist Jeffery Siegfried. The program features a new work by UC Berkeley student Clara Olivares, with whom Fonema first collaborated during their exchange with French vocal ensemble Voix de Stras' in 2015; a new work that merges music and theater by 113 composer Joey Crane; and a 2015 work by Mitch Renaud. Their concert will be preceded by a colloquium lecture on modern extended techniques and repertoire for voice and saxophone.


The Frequency Series Presents Fonema Consort and the Three Burials Album Release

• Sunday, February 18, 2018
• 8:30 PM  10:30 PM
• Constellation (map)

Composer Pablo Santiago Chin compiles in an album his works for flute written in the past ten years, ranging from solo works to chamber music and a flute concerto. Under the New Focus Recordings label, Three Burials features flutist Dalia Chin displaying a wide range of themes and techniques developed throughout the years in close collaboration with her brother, both founding members of Fonema. Departing from the homonymous work after which the concert is titled, Chin is joint by Fonema vocalist Nina Dante and guitarist Samuel Rowe to present works  by other composers also accompanied by video, but assuming different roles in relation to the music: video as score, as environment or as a narrative component.

PROGRAM
Canciones desde Xilitla (arranged excerpts) – Francisco Castillo Trigueros
Three Burials – Pablo Santiago Chin
Rupture | Rapture – Celeste Oram
Lamentos y reflejos – Valeria Jonard
Augury – Monte Weber

This project is partially supported by an Individual Artist Program Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events, as well as a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency, a state agency through federal funds provided by the National Endowment for the Arts.


Saint Xavier University Residency Concert

• Wednesday, February 14, 2018
• 1:00 PM  2:00 PM
• Saint Xavier Universtiy McGuire Hall (map)

In its fifth year in residency at SXU, Fonema Consort extends the scope of its annual residency by leading a workshop with students based on movement 7 of Cornelius Cardew’s The Great Learning, a work meant to be inclusive of performers regardless of musical training. The residency will conclude with a concert of representative works from the modernist and experimental traditions, including interconnected duos for voice and flute from Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire, Boulez’s Le marteau sans maître, and Ferneyhough’s Études Transcendantales.


North / South Ecuadorian Tour : Teatro Variedades

• Saturday, November 18, 2017
• 7:30 PM  9:30 PM

North/South, a three-way cultural exchange between Ecuador, Germany, and the US, will allow the consort to further explore and promote the connections between North and Latin American music and the European avant-garde. The project, which is supported by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, is inspired primarily by the Freiburg-based Ecuadorian composer Mesias Maiguashca. Maiguashca grew up in an indigenous family from the Andes and went on, by way of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s studio, to have a distinctive composing and teaching career in Germany. His musical language attempts to bring the folklore and cosmology of indigenous Andean peoples into contact with the rigor and mediums of the avant-garde scene in Germany. His life, and more importantly his work, thus represent precisely the kind of cultural hybridity that has energized Fonema Consort since its foundation.

PROGRAM
Chamber – Mark Barden
Basalto – Juan Campoverde
8 ejercicios para oír lo audible – Mesias Maiguashca
Salut für Caudwell – Helmut Lachenmann
Atem – Mauricio Kagel

With the friendly support of the Ernst von Siemens Foundation, the Goethe Institut, Casa Humboldt, and the FIMAC Festival


North / South Ecuadorian Tour : the FIMAC Festival

• Wednesday, November 15, 2017
• 7:30 PM  9:30 PM
• Centro Abraham Lincoln (map)

North/South, a three-way cultural exchange between Ecuador, Germany, and the US, will allow the consort to further explore and promote the connections between North and Latin American music and the European avant-garde. The project, which is supported by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, is inspired primarily by the Freiburg-based Ecuadorian composer Mesias Maiguashca. Maiguashca grew up in an indigenous family from the Andes and went on, by way of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s studio, to have a distinctive composing and teaching career in Germany. His musical language attempts to bring the folklore and cosmology of indigenous Andean peoples into contact with the rigor and mediums of the avant-garde scene in Germany. His life, and more importantly his work, thus represent precisely the kind of cultural hybridity that has energized Fonema Consort since its foundation.

PROGRAM
Chamber – Mark Barden
Basalto – Juan Campoverde
8 ejercicios para oír lo audible – Mesias Maiguashca
Salut für Caudwell – Helmut Lachenmann
Atem – Mauricio Kagel

With the friendly support of the Ernst von Siemens Foundation, the Goethe Institut, Casa Humboldt, and FIMAC


LATINxARTS presents Fonema Consort

• Thursday, September 28, 2017
• 8:00 PM  10:00 PM
• Hairpin Arts Center (map)

Mexican composers Luis Amaya and Davis Pinson join Emily Beisel in their trio Fat Pigeon to present an eclectic mixture of music genres and styles departing from their unorthodox instrumentation: clarinet(s), electric guitar and cajón peruano. In Beisel’s words: “To this framework we wish to bring the open spaces of our ploy-stylistic backgrounds in jazz, rock, classical and contemporary performance. We want to infringe on each others sonic territory and climb into each other’s sounds and ideas. Groove, breath, math, voices, mind games, and imaginary rooms.” Interspersed with their sets, Fonema Consort will present art videos with music by Mexican composer Marisol Jimenez, and Costa Rican composer Mauricio Pauly from Fonema’s album Pasos en otra calle.

LATINxARTS and the Hairpins Arts Center will host between September 15 and October 15 Latino/a/x identified artists from across Chicago from all different disciplines and backgrounds.


Harvard University's GLAM presents Fonema Consort

• Tuesday, September 19, 2017
• 8:00 PM  10:00 PM
• Harvard Music Department, Paine Hall (map)

Sharing in common their commitment to the music of innovative creators from Latin America, the consort and GLAM (Group for Latin American Musics) present works by Juan Campoverde (Ecuador), Pablo Santiago Chin (Costa Rica), Julio Estrada (Mexico) and Valeria Jonard (Mexico). GLAM is a newly created collaboration between the Harvard University Music Department and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies DRCLAS. Fonema’s visit will run parallel to a Barwick and HGNM Colloquiums with guest composers Julio Estrada and Juan Campoverde.

PROGRAM
Canto Tejido – Julio Estrada
Los lugares del deseo* – Juan Campoverde
Three Burials – Pablo Santiago Chin
Yuunohui’Tlapoa’Ehecatl – Julio Estrada
lamentos y reflejos** – Valeria Jonard
Voice Studies on Chapter 34 – Pablo Santiago Chin
Yuunohui’Ehecatl – Julio Estrada

 
ESS Presents FIFTH TABLEAU Album Release

• Saturday, May 27, 2017
• 6:00 PM  10:00 PM
• Experimental Sound Studio (map)

Fonema Consort and Parlour Tapes+ celebrate the release of FIFTH TABLEAU, which was funded by a Copland Fund Grant and YOU via Indiegogo! Performances in the garden and main studio include world premieres by PT+, Bethany Younge and Chris Mercer.

Program
New Work -- Parlour Tapes+
New Work -- Chris Mercer
Beyond Semiotics -- Bethany Younge
And featuring a group improvisation led by Emily Beisel


Northwestern University Residency and Concert

• Wednesday, May 17, 2017
• 7:30 PM  9:30 PM
• Northwestern University Galvin Hall (map)

In a day-long intensive residency at Northwestern University, Fonema Consort will workshop and perform new works by NU composers, in addition to performing Ecuadorian composer Mesias Maiguashca's 8 ejercicios por oír lo inaudible

Program
New Work -- Tristan Arostegui
New Work -- Noah Jenkins
New Work -- Matthew Arrelin
8 ejericios para oír lo inaudible -- Mesias Maiguashca
I, purples, spat blood, laugh of beautiful lips – Aaron Cassidy


The Instituto Cervantes presents Canciones desde Xilitla : a multimedia song cycle

• Thursday, April 27, 2017
• 7:00 PM  9:00 PM
• Instituto Cervantes (map)

Francisco Castillo Trigueros' new work for Fonema Consort interlaces sounds of Xilitla's exuberant nature, voices of its inhabitants, and echoes of nearby urban soundscapes with a multimedia arrangement of classical musicians, electronics and visuals. This multimedia experience presents a set of songs in which the composer reflects on the contradictions between the towns social reality and the iconic utopia of the Las Pozas: a surrealist sculpture garden by British poet Edward James. This song cycle is supported by an award from the Claire & Samuel Edes Foundation.


The Resonance Series Presents Fonema Consort + Akosuen + Noise Bias + Parlour Tapes+

• Wednesday, April 12, 2017
• 9:00 PM  10:00 PM
• The Hideout (map)

The Resonance Series is an exploration of different soundscapes and spaces at the Hideout, focusing on ambient, drone, and creative music. Fonema Consort set features works for clarinet, double bass, percussion and voice, with guest vocalist Bethany Younge.

Program
Thicket ii -- Stefan Maier, world premiere
the only improvisation is being born -- Alex Grimes
Voice and Piano, excerpts transcribed for vibraphone -- Peter Ablinger
Doublespeak -- Bethany Younge


Saint Xavier University Residency Concert

• Thursday, March 16, 2017
• 1:00 PM  2:00 PM
• Saint Xavier University McGuire Hall (map)

In their fourth residency at Saint Xavier University, Fonema presents a program of works for soprano, clarinet and percussion.

Program
Phonemena -- Milton Babbitt
I, purples, spat blood, laugh of beautiful lips -- Aaron Cassidy
Como la leyenda de Tlön -- Pablo Chin
Yunnohui'Ehecatl -- Julio Estrada
Mort d'Antigone -- Hector Parra
Dust Unsettled -- Mauricio Pauly with Zach Moore
Double Speak --Bethany Younge


113 Composers Collective Residency Concert II

• Sunday, February 5, 2017
• 4:00 PM  6:00 PM
• Studio Z (map)

Fonema Consort travels for a second time as invited guest of the University of Minnesota's 113 Composers Collective. The ensemble's 4-day residency will feature numerous workshops and two performances, featuring works by Anthony Cheung, James Dillon, Bethany Younge and 113 composers.

Program
Après une lecture -- Anthony Cheung
Roundabouts -- Anthony Cheung
Come Live with Me -- James Dillon
Bodyscape -- Bethany Younge
ghostplay -- Joey Crane
no stars -- Tiffany Skidmore


113 Composers Collective Residency Concert I

• Saturday, February 4, 2017
• 7:30 PM  9:30 PM
• University of Minnesota Ted Mann Concert Hall (map)

Fonema Consort travels for a second time as invited guest of the University of Minnesota's 113 Composers Collective. The ensemble's 4-day residency will feature numerous workshops and two performances, featuring works by Anthony Cheung, James Dillon, Bethany Younge and 113 composers.

Program
Après une lecture -- Anthony Cheung
Roundabouts -- Anthony Cheung
Come Live with Me -- James Dillon
Bodyscape -- Bethany Younge
ghostplay -- Joey Crane
no stars -- Tiffany Skidmore


The Ear Taxi Festival presents Fonema Consort

• Saturday, October 8, 2016
• 1:00 PM  2:00 PM
• Chicago Cultural Center Claudia Cassidy Theater (map)

Fonema Consort presents two works of ambitious and theatrical proportion. Joan Arnau Pàmies’ Produktionsmittel I is performed by a solo flutist in near darkness as she explores the extremes of her physical and musical worlds. Pablo Chin’s (in)armonia: retratos for low wind quartet and two solo voices is the first four scenes of his first chamber opera, depicting the driving forces that motivate the artist to create. This piece follows the journey of Odysseus past of the fatal sirens (represented by the singers) against the backdrop of endless sea (represented by the winds).

Program
Produktionsmittel I -- Joan Arnau Pàmies
(in)armonia: retratos -- Pablo Chin


The Frequency Series presents Fonema Consort and Parlour Tapes+

• Sunday, August 28, 2016
• 8:30 PM  11:30 PM
• Constellation (map)

Emceed by Parlour Tapes, Fonema Consort’s season opening concert launches their fifth anniversary celebrations that will conclude with an album release in the spring. SOUVENIRS will guide you through the ensemble's performance history, from their prehistory, to a review of each season through some favorite works from 2011-2015; interspersed with madcap music videos created by the Parlour Tapes team. SOUVENIRS offers a glimpse of the manifold moods of Fonema's repertoire: from the poetically evocative, dark, introspective, to the eccentric, sensuous and thoughtfully witty.

PROGRAM
7 Crimes de l'amour -- Georges Aperghis
Sólo es real la niebla -- Pablo Chin
Twizies -- Clint McCallum
Grammar of Dreams -- Kaija Saariaho
          

  
The Fonema Soloist Series – Emily Beisel

• Monday, June 13, 2016
• 9:00 PM  10:00 PM
• The Hungry Brain (map)

A foray into the intricacies and frustrations of human communication: micro-level intimacy binds together Mark Andre's iv 3, fragmented lines of conversation fracture the surface of Ray Evanoff's Narratives and Tim McCormack's RAW MATTER forces the performer into extreme levels of external physicality and power. Finally a new work for performer and electronics by Stefan Maier in which he "is primarily concerned with the tactility of unruly sound and interested in how we listen for speaking subjects: What is left out in this listening configuration? In what ways do various environments (digital, organic, inorganic) speak to us?

Program
Ray Evanoff | Narratives (2014)
Mark Andre | iv 3 (2008)
Tim McCormack | RAW MATTER (2015)
Stefan Maier | New Work (2016)    


The Fonema Soloist Series – Dalia Chin, flute

• Friday, May 20, 2016
• 7:30 PM  9:30 PM
• The Musical Offering (map)

Fragments of flute sounds processed electronically in Francisco Castillo’s Desde un sueño espeso, suspiro inmovil, mar infinito create texturally foggy and airy moments. Three Burials by Pablo Santiago Chin uses a transcription from indigenous Peruvian chants and transforms them into complex sounds that are part of the melodic content of the piece. Monte Weber’s Augury blends a video and light component with the experimentation of the sound using water and electronics. A new work by Amadeus Regucera explores in depth his ideas of incorporating vocal and theatrical elements into the performance. This program is the result of close collaborations with all composers.

Program
Francisco Castillo | Desde un sueño espeso, suspiro inmovil, mar infinito
Pablo Santiago Chin | Three Burials for solo flute
Monte Weber | Augury
Amadeus Regucera | New Work


The Frequency Series presents Fonema Consort's Pictures at an Exhibition

• Sunday, May 1, 2016
• 8:30 PM  11:30 PM
• Constellation (map)

Pictures of an Exhibition presents works based on visuals, whether a painting (Richard Barrett), drawing (Pablo Chin), photographs (Louis Nielson) or sculpture (Bethany Younge). In Barrett’s Coigitum (based on a painting with the same title by surrealist Chilean Roberto Matta), the subject of social oppression tied to the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in the painter's home country inspired the troublesome figures in the visuals and the severe demands on the performers in Barrett's piece. Similarly motivated, former Oberlin faculty Lewis Nielson's new piece for Fonema will be informed by photographs from the build-up to the US civil war focusing on liberationists like John Brown, and twentieth century civil rights leaders like Patrice Lulumba and Malcom X. Chin's piece is derived from musical transcriptions of various segments from a drawing by New York-based artist Theresa Chong. The concert will also feature the premiere of a piece by former Nielson's and Barrett's student and Chicago-based composer Bethany Younge, whose work features deep-rooted feminist undertones.

Program

Richard Barrett | Coïgitum
Lewis Nielson | nos qui captivos duxerunt
Bethany Younge | bodyscape
Pablo Chin | A Rayas y Cuadros


Oberlin Conservatory's Modern Music Guild presents Fonema Consort

• Friday, April 29, 2016
• 7:30 PM  8:30 PM

Pictures of an Exhibition presents works based on visuals, whether a painting (Richard Barrett), drawing (Pablo Chin), photographs (Louis Nielson) or sculpture (Bethany Younge). In Barrett’s Coigitum (based on a painting with the same title by surrealist Chilean Roberto Matta), the subject of social oppression tied to the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in the painter's home country inspired the troublesome figures in the visuals and the severe demands on the performers in Barrett's piece. Similarly motivated, former Oberlin faculty Lewis Nielson's new piece for Fonema will be informed by photographs from the build-up to the US civil war focusing on liberationists like John Brown, and twentieth century civil rights leaders like Patrice Lulumba and Malcom X. Chin's piece is derived from musical transcriptions of various segments from a drawing by New York-based artist Theresa Chong. The concert will also feature the premiere of a piece by former Nielson's and Barrett's student and Chicago-based composer Bethany Younge, whose work features deep-rooted feminist undertones.

Program
Richard Barrett | Coïgitum
Lewis Nielson | nos qui captivos duxerunt*
Bethany Younge | bodyscape*
Pablo Chin | A Rayas y Cuadros

*world premiere


The Fonema Soloist Series – Weston Olencki, trombone

• Thursday, April 21, 2016
• 7:00 PM  9:00 PM
• High Concept Laboratories (map)

This program explore banalities, absurdities, commodities, comedies, realities. It will feature [in order] poorly sample opera overtures, sounds beyond the auditory threshold, a misused YouTube video, the use of headphones, sheets of glass and metal. Its purpose is an attempt to survey various inaccessible, private, withheld, hidden, uncontrollable objects - those that are interpersonal, inaudible, digital, internal, mechanical.

Program
Tim Parkinson | Opus 1 (from Time with People)
Charlie Sdraulig | few
Jessie Marino | AUTOPROCESS :: RESOLVE :: DISSOLVE
Louis D’Heudieres | Laughter Studies
Michelle Lou | New Work


The Chicago Cultural Center's Chamber Music Mondays presents Fonema Consort

• Monday, April 18, 2016
• 12:15 PM  1:15 PM
• The Chicago Cultural Center's Preston Bradley Hall (map)

Curated by soprano Nathalie Colas, Standing Still explores the strong connection between poetry and music within the intimate setting of the traditional art song form, through the musical voice of XXth century composers. The program strives to cast different lights on the triangular relationship between voice, piano and poetry, through the eyes of an observer.

The observer is the poet, standing still and sharing his/her impressions of the world around him/her. The observer is the musician, noting the composer’s care in setting the poet’s words and giving it a musical voice. The observer is also the audience member who, still as he/she listens, receives the symbiosis of music and words.

Nathalie Colas, soprano
Joann Cho, piano

Program
After the Sandals of Summer (words by Iain Crichton-Smith) | P. Demopoulos (*1977)
New work (words by John Muir) | D. Grant (*1976)
Trois mélodies (words by O. Messiaen and C. Sauvage) | O. Messiaen (1908-1992)
Azur (words by Stéphane Mallarmé) A. d. Paolo (*1978)


New Music Nights presents Fonema Consort

• Monday, April 4, 2016
• 8:00 PM  10:00 PM
• Spectrum (map)

New Music nights is a 3-night new music festival curated by Lester St. Louis, that presents active new music performers. Fonema Consort brings a program of works beloved to the ensemble for soprano, clarinet and guitar.

Program
Mort d'Antigone | Hector Parra
Yuunohui | Julio Estrada
gesammeltes Schweigen | Reiko Füting
Equilibrium | Jason Eckardt
Drei Lieder | Anton Webern


National Sawdust presents Fonema Consort's "Of tongues..."

• Sunday, April 3, 2016
• 7:00 PM  9:00 PM
• National Sawdusy (map)

Following the driving motivations of Fonema Consort, Of Tongues examines various roles and approaches to the voice embraced by contemporary composers, and pays homage to Webern’s vocal music, which even now is a decisive force in shaping the course of new music. The program travels from the thoughtful dissection of a Borges poem in Irene Quero’s Línea, to unbridled dramaturgy in the works of Pablo Chin and Francisco Guerrero; from the purely sonic understanding of phonemes without semantic content in two works by Jason Eckardt; to the spiritual texts that enabled Webern to formalize his use of the twelve-tone method in Drei Lieder. “Of Tongues” ultimately reveals that phonology and semantics are powerful tools to develop expressive musical possibilities. Fonema Consort is honored to perform as part of National Sawdust's inaugural season with curator Miranda Cuckson.

Program
Pablo Chin | Scene from (in)armonia
Pablo Chin | (in)armonia: retratos
Jason Eckardt | Equilibrium: Part II, of Tongues
Jason Eckardt | To be held...
Francisco Guerrero | Erotica
Irene Quero | Línea
Webern | Drei Lieder, Op. 18


University of Wisconsin Whitewater Residency Concert

• Saturday, March 12, 2016
• 7:30 PM  9:30 PM
• University of Wisconsin Whitewater Light Recital Hall (map)

Fonema Consort makes their debut in Wisconsin through a residency at UWW. Soprano Nina Dante and flutist Dalia Chin will present a concert with tour-de-force solo works with electronics by Milton Babbitt, Joan Arnau Pàmies, and Pablo Chin; as well as two classic duos of contemporary repertoire by Beat Furrer. Dante and Chin will also participate in a workshop with composition students from the studio of Professor Jeff Herriott and the residency will conclude with a performance of Pablo Chin’s flute concerto In the Form of a Shell with the UWW orchestra conducted by Chris Ramaekers featuring Dalia Chin.

Program
Milton Babbitt | Phonemena
Pablo Chin | 7 Studies on Chapter 34
Beat Furrer | Invocation III
Juan Campoverde | basalto
Joan Arnau Pàmies | Produktionsmittel I


The Frequency Festival presents Fonema Consort's North/South

• Wednesday, February 24, 2016
• 8:30 PM  10:30 PM
• The University of Chicago's Bond Chapel (map)

Fonema Consort is honored to be a part of the inaugural Frequency Series Festival, which celebrates Chicago's ever-richer contemporary music scene with events each day from February 23-28. For the full line-up and tickets, please visit http://www.frequencyseries.com

Inevitably recalling the life and career trajectory of Argentinian/German Mauricio Kagel, Ecuadorian-native Mesias Maiguashca established in Germany as a mature composer and teacher of composition and electronic music for more than five decades. Descendant from indigenous parents from the Andes and former student of Stockhausen, his musical language attempts to reflect the profound impact that the folklore and Andean cosmology surrounding his youth and the rigour and mediums of the avant-garde scene in Europe had on his perception of sound. With the support of the Goethe-Institut, and in collaboration with the Frequency Series and the Renaissance Society, Fonema Consort is thrilled to introduce the work of Maiguashca to Chicago by premiering a piece of his along complementary works by Kagel, Lachenmann and Chicago-based Ecuadorian Juan Campoverde.

Made possible by the generous support of the Goethe Institut and the Renaissance Society.

Program
Juan Campoverde | basalto
Mauricio Kagel | Atem
Helmut Lachenmann | Salut für Cauldwell
Mesias Maiguashca | 8 ejercicios para oír lo inaudible WORLD PREMIERE


The Frequency Series presents Ever a New Cycle

• Sunday, November 29, 2015
• 8:30 PM  11:30 PM
• Constellation (map)

Supported by a 2015 DCASE Grant, soprano Nina Dante presents a concert designed to carry on the beautiful tradition of song cycle into the 21st Century. Two new song cycles by Chicago-based composers Pablo Chin and Jonathon Kirk are accompanied by two works for soprano and cello by Shawn Jaeger, part of what was designed to become a larger cycle based on the poetry and folk music of the Appalachians. Accompanied by projected artwork by engineer/artist/poet Robert Grubbs, this evening of music will explore the universality of mankind's suffering and ecstasy, as all good song cycles aim to do. Emily Beisel, clarinet; Erin Rafferty, viola; Molly Rife, cello; Ryan Packard, percussion.

This project is partially supported by an Individual Artist Program Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events, as well as a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency through federal funds provided by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Program
Pablo Chin | (in)armonia: Mythologies (part i and ii)
Pablo Chin music; Nina Dante, poetry | Como la leyenda de Tlön
Shawn Jaeger | In Old Virginny
Shawn Jaeger | Pastor Hick's Farewell
Jonathon Kirk | A Single Climb to a Line


The Frequency Series presents Fonema Consort's After Interventions

• Sunday, November 1, 2015
• 8:30 PM  11:30 PM
• Constellation (map)

Our first concert of this season with the Frequency Series at Constellation takes off from our last concert there in May, re-contextualizing works by Marisol Jiménez and Katherine Young with a duo by former Chicago composer Monte Weber, a full ensemble piece by Harvard graduate Sivan Cohen-Elias and a world premiere by NU faculty Chris Mercer performed by Ann Yi (piano). This program explores the role of auxiliary performers in questioning mediums that have historically been taken for granted. From Mercer’s Octoid for piano in which three performers also intervene inside the piano thus expanding the sound pallette and polyphonic capabilities of the solo instrument, to Jiménez’s Caro Cibus which displays a series of self-made objects to expand the mechanism of instrumental sound production, each other piece in the program also propose imaginative ways of redefining otherwise seemingly conventional chamber settings.

Program
Sivan Cohen-Elias | How Long is Now
Marisol Jimenez | Caro cibus
Chris Mercer | Octoid
Monte Weber | Mimesis
Katherine Young | Master of Disguises


The 113 Composers Collective presents Julio Estrada and Fonema Consort

• Friday, October 30, 2015
• 7:30 PM  9:30 PM
• University of Minnesota Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall (map)

Fonema Consort is honored to continue their collaboration with visionary Mexican composer Julio Estrada. The University of Minnesota presents Fonema Consort's Dalia Chin (flute) and Emily Beisel (clarinet) as part of Estrada's two-day residency. Dalia Chin reprises Estrada's searing Yuunohui'Ehecatl both as a solo and a duet with Emily Beisel; programmed with complimentary works by Giacinto Scelsi and Ray Evanoff.

Program
Julio Estrada | Yuunohui'Ehecatl version i for solo bass flute, version ii for flute and clarinet
Giacinto Scelsi | Ko-Lho for flute and clarinet
Ray Evanoff  | Narratives for solo E-flat clarinet


Works by the Chicago Composer's Consortium

• Friday, October 9, 2015
• 7:30 PM  9:30 PM
• North Shore Baptist Church (map)

Paraphrasing entre Michigan y Jefferson, a piece that Miami-based Orlando Garcia composed for Fonema Consort last year for the occasion of the 10th edition of the festival Visiones Sonoras in Morelia, Mexico, this time the consort partners with the Chicago Composers Consortium to welcome Garcia to Chicago and perform a selection of his early and late entrancing works at the historical North Shore Baptist Church of Andersonville, in between Lakewood and Berwyn, along other pieces by the CCC composers.

Program
Lawrence Axelrod | Heterophonies
Orlando Garcia | Core Interlude
Orlando Garcia | Después de la lluvia
Orlando Garcia | entre Michigan y Jefferson
Orlando Garcia | oscurecimiento gradual
Martha Horst | Exchanges
Laura Schwendinger | Kay Ryan Songs
Elizabeth Start | More Talking Object Songs


Experimental Sound Studio Presents Fonema Consort

• Friday, September 25, 2015
• 7:00 PM  9:00 PM
• Experimental Sound Studio (map)

Embracing the operatic spirit of Sciarrino’s La perfezione di un spirito sottile, Experimental Sound Studio (ESS) presents Fonema Consort in an outdoor musical experience within the private atmosphere of the studio's garden. In this program, the ecstatic crescendo of James Tenney's Having Never Written a Note for Percussion* for solo tam-tam functions as an overture to the spellbinding atmosphere of Sciarrino's quasi opera. This program sound-paints the colors of the sky at sunset with an extensive but focused immersion in the sound properties of the instrumental medium. Featuring Nathalie Colas (soprano), Dalia Chin (flute) and Ryan Packard (percussion).
*Replacing Han's Thomalla's Percussion Counterpart, due to performer's injury

Program
Salvatore Sciarrino | La perfezione di un spirito sottile
James Tenney | Having Never Written a Note for Percussion

    
HCL presents the Fonema Soloist Series – Samuel Rowe and Shawn Lucas

• Friday, May 22, 2015
• 8:00 PM  10:00 PM
• Manna Contemporary (map)

Moving through soundworlds created by Pisaro and Lachenmann's music-- variously austere and dense, delicate and violent-- the guitar emerges as something other than the lyrical, heroic instrument with which we are familiar. The music operates at the outer limits of the guitar's capabilities, ranging from prickly percussive attacks to bell-like overtones verging on inaudibility. It thus unfolds the latent expressive possibilities of the instrument, its capacities for evoking aggression, tact and loss.

Soloists from Fonema Series is a sponsored project of High Concept Laboratories at Mana Contemporary, 2014-15.

Program
Salut fur Caldwell, by Helmut Lachenmann
here (1), by Michael Pisaro


The Frequency Series Presents Fonema Consort's Interventions

• Sunday, April 26, 2015
• 8:30 PM  11:30 PM
• Constellation (map)

Featuring trombonist Weston Olencki, this program explores the role of auxiliary performers in questioning mediums that have historically been taken for granted. In Clint MacCullum's Twinzies, both the flutist and the vocalist crossover as they intervene into each other's instrument, while in Pablo Chin's new work From Afar, a short vocal duo is inserted into a piece for solo trombone. Katherine Young's puddles and crumbs amplifies and processes electronically trombone sounds beyond recognition so that such sonic outcome intercedes in the traditional physical means of technical production. The program also features Marisol Jiménez' Caro Cibus, which displays a series of self-made objects to expand the mechanism of instrumental sound production.

Program
Caro Cibus, by Marisol Jiminez
Twinzies, by Clint McCallum
puddles and crumbs, by Katherine Young
From Afar (World Premiere), by Pablo Santiago Chin


Saint Xavier University Residency Concert

• Wednesday, April 22, 2015
• 7:30 PM  8:30 PM
• Saint Xavier University's McDonough Chapel (map)

Featuring trombonist Weston Olencki, and flutist Dalia Chin, who will perform unique works with live electronics composed for them by Chicago composers Francisco Castillo Trigueros and Katherine Young. The concert will be preceded by a lecture/conversation between the performers and audience.

Program
Puddles and Crumbs, by Katherine Young
desde un sueño espeso, suspiro inmovil, mar infinito, by Francisco Castillo Trigueros


The Frequency Series presents Fonema Consort and James Dillon

• Wednesday, April 15, 2015
• 7:00 PM  9:00 PM
• Constellation (map)

Fonema Consort is thrilled to welcome composer James Dillon to Chicago for a concert and public discussion of his chamber works. ANCIENT RITES II contrasts a selection of haunting vocal works by the Scottish composer with works by Mexican composer Julio Estrada his former student, Iván Sparrow. These pieces ultimately converge through the emergence of ritualistic elements as the core of musical expression.

The concert features James Dillon's solo piccolo work Diffraction and two of his sensuous vocal chamber works: Come Live with Me and selections from L'évolution du vol. Both feature rich instrumentation, texts that breathe natural magic, and mind-bending complexity that results in the lushest of musical environments.

In Julio Estrada's Miqi'Nahual for double bass, the instrument(s) (a second bass lying on a table is played with two bows) represents the corpse of Juan Preciado in his opera Murmullos del Páramo, based on Juan Rulfo's classic novel "Pedro Páramo." The search for a jarringly expressive soundworld in this piece deviates from the delicate textures of Sparrow's "Entre las grietas" (written for Fonema Consort for our debut at the International Festival of Chihuahua 2014); in this piece, the timbral explorations of Dillon's music appear in an intermediate state, constantly flowing from the sensual to the vernacular.

Program
James Dillon: Come Live with Me
James Dillon: Diffraction
James Dillon : A Roaring Flame
James Dillon: L'évolution de vol, selection
Julio Estrada: Miqi'Nahual
Iván Sparrow: Entre las grietas


Saint Xavier University Residency Concert

• Monday, April 13, 2015
• 7:30 PM  8:30 PM
• Saint Xavier University McDonough Chapel (map)

Fonema Consort presents works for voice and double bass performed by Nina Dante and Kathryn Schulmeister.


HCL presents the Fonema Soloist Series – Kathryn Schulmeister

• Friday, April 3, 2015
• 8:00 PM  10:00 PM
• Manna Contemporary (map)

Kathryn Schulmeister performs two works for solo double bass that culminate three years of collaboration with Catalan composer Joan Arnau Pamies. [d(k_s)b] (2011) is a virtuosic tour de force which serves as precursor to [k(d_b)s] (2012-13), a work concerned with parametrical deconstruction as a means to structural complexity. The program also features the world premiere of Sound Portrait (2014) by Enric Riu, an early mentor of Pamies.

Soloists from Fonema Series is a sponsored project of High Concept Laboratories at Mana Contemporary, 2014-15.

Program
Ein Hauch von Unzeit VII: (Plainte sur la perte de la reflexion musicale), by Klaus Huber
[d(k_s)b], by Joan Arnau Pamies
[k(d_b)s], by Joan Arnau Pamies
Sound Portrait, by Enric Riu WORLD PREMIERE


Merging Voices – Fonema Consort and Voix de Stras at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg

• Friday, March 27, 2015
• 8:00 PM  10:00 PM
• Cité de la musique et de la danse (map)

The last stage of a collaboration between Chicago-based Fonema Consort and French vocal ensemble Voix de Stras' features works by living composers based in both cities, including Pablo Chin, Morgan Krauss, Clara Olivares, and Ivan Solano. This project is funded in part by the French-American Fund for Contemporary Music (FACE).


HCL presents the Fonema Soloist Series – Ryan Packard

• Friday, February 27, 2015
• 8:00 PM  10:00 PM
• Manna Contemporary (map)

Percussion music post-Vinko Globokar and Mauricio Kagel has often turned towards balancing the absurd, the culturally referential, and the downright problematic in a cluster chaos-filled soundworld that is tangled in its own semantically-charged web. This concert pairs one of the important works of modern percussion repertoire, Globokar's ?Corporel, with newer works for percussion that have pushed percussion repertoire into a new frontier of musical theatrics.

The Fonema Soloists Series is a sponsored project of High Concept Laboratories at Mana Contemporary, 2014-15.

Program
Vinko Globokar: ?Corporel
Vinko Globokar: Au dela d'une etude pour percussion
Oxana Omelchuk: STAAHAADLER AFF


Sounds of the South Loop Series presents Fonema Consort

• Sunday, January 25, 2015
• 2:00 PM  3:00 PM
• Second Presbyterian Church (map)

Fonema Consort makes its debut on the Sounds of the South Loop concert series, featuring soprano Nina Dante, flutist Dalia Chin and clarinetist Emily Beisel who lead the audience through an exploration of the pieces and composers throughout the concert.

Program
Giacinto Scelsi: Ko-Loh
Michael Finnissy: Moon's Goin' Down
Beat Furrer: Invocation III


The New Music Miami Festival presents Fonema Consort

• Friday, January 16, 2015
• 7:30 PM  9:30 PM
• Miami Beach Urban Studios (map)

The New Music Miami Festival is one of Florida's leading events showcasing contemporary music. Fonema will present a main stage concert as part of the festival, as well as leading a forum with composition students at Florida International University.

Program
Basalto, by Juan Campoverde
(in)armonia: motets, by Pablo Chin
entre michigan y jefferson, by Orlando Garcia
New Work, by Shawn Lucas
VIvox^3, by Joan Arnau Pamies


Frequency Series presents Fonema Consort and the Music of James Dillon

• Saturday, December 13, 2014
• 8:30 PM  11:30 PM
• Constellation (map)

The interest in the origin of music shared by the composers featured in this concert converge in this program through the emergence of ritualistic elements as the core of musical expression.

Program
Time Lag Zero, by James Dillon
Come Live with Me, by James Dillon
Yuunohui'Ehecatl, by Julio Estrada
Okanagon, by Giacinto Scelsi
Three Echoes Before Full Moon, by Ondřej Štochl
,that..!, by Jan Trojan


Canvas Theater presents Fonema Consort's Love Songs

• Friday, November 21, 2014
• 8:00 PM  10:00 PM
• Canvas Theater (map)

In tangible, suggestive or evocative ways, this program calls for distinct aspects and nuances of the subject of love through the music itself, their extramusical sources or their titles. This concert welcomes new Fonema members Elisa Sutherland (mezzo) and Weston Olencki (trombone).

Program
Aaron Cassidy: Song only as Sad as their Listener
James Dillon: Time Lag Zero
Francisco Guerrero: Erotica
Joan Arnau Pàmies: Per ser plagat de ta dolca ferida
Zesses Seglias: Lonesingness


The Latino Music Festival presents Fonema Consort

• Thursday, November 13, 2014
• 7:30 PM  9:30 PM
• University of Chicago Fulton Hall (map)

Fonema's third appearance on the multifaceted Latino Music Festival of Chicago will showcase the wide range of musical languages of Chicago's community of hispanic composers. From South and Central America to Spain, composers of a common heritage may diverge in musical concepts as revealed by this program thus challenging the traditional concepts (or misconceptions) of identity.

Program
New Work, by Andres Carrizo
Halo incruste, by Francisco Castillo Trigueros
Como la leyenda de Tlon, by Pablo Chin
New Work, by Gustavo Leone
Palimpsestus, by Joan Arnau Pamies
Gestural Procedure, by Enric Riu


Visiones Sonoras Festival

• Tue, Oct 21, 201412:00 AM  Sun, Oct 26, 201411:59 PM
• CMMAS (map)

In collaboration with the Mexican Center for Music and Sonic Arts (CMMAS), Fonema Consort will premiere the works of five Latin American composers in the 10th Edition of the International Festival of Music and New Technologies "Visiones Sonoras" in Morelia, Mexico. In addition to works by Juan Campoverde, Pablo Chin, Julio Estrada, Orlando Garcia, Joan Arnau Pàmies, and Carlos Vazquez, the program features new works selected through a call for scores by Valeria Jonard and Julio Zuniga.


The Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo presents Fonema Consort

• Monday, October 20, 2014
• 1:00 PM  3:00 PM
• Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (map)

As an extension of the Visiones Sonoras festival, Mexico City’s MUAC presents Fonema Consort.

Program

Basalto – Juan Campoverde
Como la leyenda de Tlön – Pablo Chin
Yuunohui’ehecatl – Julio Estrada
Abismo azul, floreciente – Francisco Castillo Trigueros
[VIvox]^3 – Joan Arnau Pàmies


Festival interfaz presents Fonema Consort

• Friday, October 17, 2014
• 7:00 PM  9:00 PM
• Auditorio del Museo de Historia Mexicana (map)

Program

Basalto – Juan Campoverde
Como la leyenda de Tlön – Pablo Chin
Yuunohui’ehecatl – Julio Estrada
[VIvox]^3 – Joan Arnau Pàmies
Abismo azul, floreciente – Francisco Castillo Trigueros


The Music on Madison presents Fonema Consort's Microscopica

• Friday, October 10, 2014
• 7:30 PM  9:30 PM
• The Musical Offering (map)

Microscopica puts aspects of sound and form under an "aural microscope" to reveal the substance and minute fabric of the works.

Program
A rayas y cuadros by Pablo Chin
Miniatures by Marc Codina
Tandem by Chris Fisher-Lochhead
100 Watt Tungsten Incandescent by Ryan Packard
Postludes by Joan Arnau Pamies
Drei Kleine Lieder by Anton Webern
Three Little Pieces by Anton Webern


The Festival Internacional de Chihuahua presents Fonema Consort

• Wednesday, August 20, 2014
• 6:00 PM  8:00 PM
• Teatro de Cámara (map)

Fonema Consort premeires works by graduate composers as part of the Festival Internacional de Chihuahua.


The Festival Internacional de Chihuahua presents Fonema Consort

• Tuesday, August 19, 2014
• 8:00 PM  10:00 PM
• Teatro de Cámara (map)

This August, Fonema Consort travels for a second time to Mexico as a featured ensemble in the International Festival of Chihuahua. Fonema will workshop and premiere new pieces by young composers, in addition to presenting a main stage solo concert.

Program

Umbrales, Juan Campoverde
Boschiana, Pablo Chin
Yuunohui'ehecatl, Julio Estrada
Quattro Voci mvt III, Stefano Gervasoni
Mort d'Antigone, Hector Parra
Adjö, Kaija Saariaho

      
The City of Chicago's Millenium Park Loops and Variations

• Thursday, June 27, 2013
• 6:30 PM  7:30 PM
• Millennium Park Pritzker Pavilion (map)

Fonema Consort makes its Millennium Park debut on the city of Chicago's concert series Loops and Variations, where they will open for the experimental electronic music duo Matmos with an electrified program.

This program showcases talented emerging compositional voices of the city, along with their unique conception of the human voice's role in music today. The use of technology serves to expand the ensemble's musical palette through the amplification of minute details in vocal sound and noise production, the confrontation of live and pre-recorded voices, and the live manipulation of voices and instruments.

Works by Pablo Chin, Daniel Dehaan, Edward Hamel, Jonathon Kirk and Joan Arnau Pàmies.


Permutations Presents Fonema Consort

• Friday, June 14, 2013
• 8:00 PM  11:00 PM

Fonema Consort returns to NYC in June for their second appearance with the new music concert series Permutations in Harlem, NYC, featuring NYC vocalist Megan Schubert. Join us for an evening of some of our favorite and most intense music while enjoying frosty beverages in the atmospheric upTOWN, underGROUND.

Tickets available for pre-order only, and all proceeds will be dedicated to funding Fonema Consort's upcoming 2013-2014 season- click here to purchase!

General admission $15, students $10.

Sequenza III, Luciano Berio
Two Walking, Pascal Dusapin
Superscriptio, Brian Ferneyhough
Invocation VI, Beat Furrer
New Work, David Grant
[VIvox]^3, Joan Arnau Pàmies WORLD PREMIERE
From the Grammar of Dreams, Kaija Saariaho


The Frequency Series presents Fonema Consort with Mabel Kwan

• Sunday, May 26, 2013
• 8:30 PM  11:30 PM
• Constellation (map)

Join us and special guest pianist Mabel Kwan at 8:30 next Sunday for an evening of music for voice and instruments in the groundbreaking new music series Frequency, hosted by Chicago's newest venue, Constellation.

This intense, three-set program mixes works of contained virtuosity with pieces of transporting textures, including works of four local composers. Program highlights include the U.S. premiere of Pablo Chin's Persona for double bass, two mesmerizing works for piano and voice by Hans Thomalla and Monte Weber, and a rendition of Sequenza III by singer Nina Dante.

Tickets are $10/$5 for students - click here to purchase

Sequenza III, Luciano Berio
Persona, Pablo Chin
Superscriptio, Brian Ferneyhough
Lotofagos, Beat Furrer
gravity of shadows, Morgan Krauss
Three Desert Songs, Hans Thomalla
Mimesis, Monte Weber


Chopin Amplified

• Tuesday, May 7, 2013
• 7:30 PM  9:30 PM
• Chopin Theater (map)

Fonema Consort is thrilled to perform once again at the historic Chopin Theatre in Chicago, where a program of works uniting acoustic instruments and electronics will be presented. New works by Chicago’s Chris Jones, Jonathon Kirk, and Shawn Lucas will be complemented by a performance of Luigi Nono’s rarely played masterwork …sofferte onde serene… for solo piano and tape.

Free admission - Donations will be accepted

Quattro Voci by Stefano Gervasoni
Devil Madrigals by Christopher Jones WORLD PREMIERE
Spirits and Elements by Jonathon Kirk
Rhinoceros by Shawn Lucas
... sofferte onde serene... by Luigi Nono


MIIRYN's Mikros Festival and Spectrum Present Fonema Consort

• Wednesday, May 1, 2013
• 7:00 PM  9:00 PM
• Spectrum NYC (map)

This program, in collaboration with the Mikros Festival and featuring guest violinist Miranda Cuckson marks Fonema's debut at Spectrum, where the ensemble will take advantage of the progressive technology available through a program involving amplification, diffused audio and video, and featuring new works by some of Chicago's brightest emerging composers. This program will be followed an improvisational set led by bassist Kathryn Schulmeister and Anthony Coleman. Entrance is free, and donations will be gratefully accepted.

7 Studies on Chapter 34, Pablo Chin
Tristesse,Daniel Dehaan
Spirits and Elements, Jonathon Kirk U.S. PREMIERE
[IVsax(op_VIvln/c)], Joan Arnau Pàmies
to what depths of dark pigment, Mauricio Pauly
Visible, Charles Wuorinen


MIIRYN COLLECTIVE Mikros Festival

• Tuesday, April 30, 2013
• 7:30 PM  8:30 PM
• 109 Gallery (map)

Fonema Consort, featuring saxophonist Will Fergason, will make a guest appearance at the Mikros Festival concert at 109, NYC. Their performance of Pablo Chin’s trio Solo es real la niebla will be among several works by emerging composers, including Timothy McCormack, and Chicago's Chris Fisher-Lochhead and Joan Arnau Pàmies.

Solo es real la niebla, Pablo Chin
New Work, Chris Fisher-Lochhead
HEAVY MATTER Timothy McCormack
[14(a/c)_∞p], Joan Arnau Pàmies


MIIRYN Collective presents Fonema Consort

• Saturday, April 27, 2013
• 8:00 PM  10:00 PM
• The Space (map)

Fonema Consort's Boston premiere concert will feature the works of Fonema composers Pablo Chin and Joan Arnau Pàmies, following a day of lectures and demonstrations of their music at New England Conservatory. Joined by members of the collective Miiryn, a joint interpretation of Christian Wolff's Pairs, followed by an improvisatory set by Miiryn musicians.

7 Studies on Chapter 34, Pablo Chin
De mi canto fluyen soledades ajenas..., Pablo Chin
[5(bt)_6(db)], Joan Arnau Pàmies
Pairs, Christian Wolff
Improvisatory set led by Felix Del Tredici (trombone)Kathryn Schulmeister (bass), and Fausto Sierakowski


University of Chicago Residency – Duo X with Fonema Consort

• Saturday, April 6, 2013
• 8:00 PM  10:00 PM
• Logan Center for the Arts Performance Penthouse (map)

The intercultural ensemble Duo X (Naomi Sato, Japanese sho, and Laura Carmichael, clarinet) visits from the Netherlands. The first half of the concert is the culmination of a workshop with composers at the University of Chicago where the possibilities of intercultural music are explored. The second half features pieces written for Duo X by Ken Ueno and Oguz Büyükberber. Guest musicians include Chicago's own Fonema Consort and the University of Chicago Computer Music Studio. View FB invite.

Music by: Andres Carrizo, Francisco Castillo Trigueros, Yuan-Chen Li, Phil Taylor, Ken Ueno, and Oguz Büyükberber

Performed by: Duo X (Naomi Sato, Japanese Sho + Laura Carmichael, Clarinets) with Guest Artists: Fonema Consort, and the University of Chicago Computer Music Studio


Saint Xavier University Residency Concert

• Friday, March 22, 2013
• 1:00 PM  2:00 PM
• Saint Xavier University McGuire Hall (map)

Fonema Consort is pleased to be invited back to Saint Xavier University for a second residency. The program will include:

-an interactive lecture on Berio's Sequenza III for solo voice
-workshop and performance of student works
-concert at 1:00pm in McGuire Hall

Sequenza III, Luciano Berio
Superscriptio, Bian Ferneyhough
Pleasures in Momentum selections, Edward Hamel
Mirrors, Kaija Saariaho
Sept Papillons selections, Kaija Saariaho
Drei Stücke, Anton Webern
Pairs, Christian Wolff


Mirrors II – Luminous Garden

• Thursday, March 21, 2013
• 7:30 PM  9:30 PM
• Jennifer Norback Gallery (map)

Fonema Consort's two-part concert series in March, "Mirrors", revolves around the vocal duo From the Grammar of Dreams by Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho. This evocative piece serves as a focal point from which both programs draw aesthetic symmetries and contrasts.Mirrors II is produced in collaboration with THE PROJECT ROOM Gallery. The lush music of Saariaho and Dusapin will be performed surrounded by the photographic series "Luminous Garden" by Paul Den Hollander, "whose work has consistently focused on the relationship between man and the natural world, and on his garden".
Shin'gyô, Pascal Dusapin
Two Walking selections, Pascal Dusapin
Two Voices and Cello, Morton Feldman
From the Grammar of Dreams, Kaija Saariaho
Mirrors, Kaija Saariaho
Drifting the upper layers, Scott Scharf


Mirrors I – featuring Miranda Cuckson, Violin

• Sunday, March 3, 2013
• 7:30 PM  9:30 PM
• Northwestern University's Vail Chapel (map)

Fonema Consort's two-part concert series in March, "Mirrors", revolves around the vocal duo From the Grammar of Dreams by Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho. This evocative piece serves as a focal point from which both programs draw aesthetic symmetries and contrasts.

Fonema Consort is thrilled to collaborate with guest violinist/violist Miranda Cuckson in Mirrors I. She will perform Oscar Bianchi’s ironically complex Semplice, among other chamber and solo works.

Semplice, Oscar Bianchi
Voice, Violin and Piano, Morton Feldman
Rhinoceros, Shawn Lucas WORLD PREMIERE
From the Grammar of Dreams, Kaija Saariaho
Nocturne, Kaija Saariaho
Visible, Charles Wuorinen


Arie

• Saturday, December 15, 2012
• 7:30 PM  9:30 PM
• University of Chicago's Fulton Hall (map)

Arie pays tribute to the tradition of Italian song through a selection of intimate works for soprano and instruments by some of the most important Italian composers of the past 60 years, including Salvatore Sciarrino, Franco Donatoni, Giacinto Scelsi and Stefano Gervasoni. This concert highlights the first collaboration of EVL with virtuoso pianist David Kalhous, who opens the concert with Sciarrino’s fiercely demanding Sonata No. 4, and is further marked by the US premier of Gervasoni’s Quattro Voci.

Piano Sonata No. IV, Salvatore Sciarrino
Sauh I, Giacinto Scelsi
Algo mvt 1, Franco Donatoni
Due melodie, Salvatore Sciarrino
Quattro Voci, Stefano Gervasoni


The Peak, the Valley

• Friday, November 30, 2012
• 7:30 PM  9:30 PM
• Northwestern University's Vail Chapel (map)

The Peak, The Valley makes allusion to both the contrast between the registers and temperaments of the soprano voice and the double bass, and the imagery of the southern Appalachian Mountains from where traditional chants served as inspiration for Shawn Jaeger‘s piece In Old Virginny. Further commentary on this allegory is provided by a “classic” solo work of the last 60 years for piccolo (Ferneyhough’s Superscriptio). This concert also features a new chamber work commissioned from Chicago composer Morgan Krauss.

Superscriptio for solo piccolo, Brian Ferneyhough
Invocation VI for soprano and bass flute, Beat Furrer
Lotófagos for soprano and string bass, Beat Furrer
In Old Virginny for soprano and string bass, Shawn Jaeger
Gravity of Shadows for 2 voices+piccolo+string bass, Morgan Krauss


The Instituto Cervantes presents Notes from the Americas

• Saturday, October 13, 2012
• 7:00 PM  9:00 PM
• Instituto Cervantes (map)

This concert features works by young and established Latin American composers, whose musical search has taken them into journeys throughout the Americas; from Argentina to Canada; from East to West coast. This program is designed to offer Chicago audiences a glimpse at the new generation of Latin America’s compositional voices.

Desde un sueño espeso, suspiro inmóvil, mar infinito, by Francisco Castillo Trigueros
7 Studies on Chapter 34 (world premiere), by Pablo Chin
Ears, Skin, and Bone Riddles, by Marcos Balter
Synchronisms No 9, by Mario Davidovsky
Otra música, (world premiere) by Guillermo Gregorio
Promenade sur une Lumière Bruyante, by Marisol Jiménez
to what depths of dark pigment, by Mauricio Pauly and Sam Salem
No había sino detalles, casi inmediatos, by Julio Zúñiga

Pilgrim Church Presents Fonema Consort

• Sunday, August 19, 2012
• 7:30 PM  10:30 PM
• Pilgrim Congregational Church (map)

Fonema brings highlights from its summer tour concerts in NYC and Costa Rica to the residents of Oak Park and Chicago, in an intimate concert at Pilgrim Congregational Church. This event features special guest pianist Mabel Kwan, who will join singer Nina Dante in the Chicago premiere of Hans Thomalla's "Three Desert Songs". Works by Berio, Birtwistle, Dehaan, Kurtag, Saariaho, Thomalla and Zúñiga.    


The Centro Cultural de España presents Fonema Consort

• Friday, August 10, 2012
• 7:00 PM  10:00 PM

The Centro Cultural de España (San José, Costa Rica) presents Fonema Consort.

delete/control/option, Marcos Balter
Solo es real la niebla, Pablo Chin
Tristesse, de Daniel Dehaan
Spirits and Elements, Jonthon Kirk From
what depths of dark pigment, Mauricio Pauly y Sam Salem
No habia sino detalles, casi inmendiatos, Julio Zúñiga


Permutations present Fonema Consort

• Friday, June 8, 2012
• 8:30 PM  11:30 PM
• New York, NY (map)

The second installment of the Permutations series features Ensemble Vulpine Lupin with special guest violin/violist Miranda Cuckson, performing in a fundraiser to benefit EVL's upcoming performances and outreach programs in Costa Rica. The program includes works by Birtwistle, Dusapin, Fujikura, Kurtag, Sciarrino, Sigman, Wolff, and Chicago-based composers Balter, Chin, Dehaan and Jay Alan Yim.


Fonema at the Chopin Theater

• Tuesday, June 5, 2012
• 7:30 PM  9:00 PM
• The Chopin Theater (map)

Fonema presents its first season finale, Fragments, at Chicago’s historic Chopin Theatre. Featuring short works by Pierre Boulez, Aldo Clementi, David Grant, David Hamel, Toshio Hosokawa, György Kurtág, Arnold Schoenberg, Salvatore Sciarrino, and Anton Webern.


Fonema at the Charleston

• Sunday, May 27, 2012
• 7:30 PM  10:30 PM
• The Charleston Bar (map)

Join Fonema for an evening of music and curated drinks at the Charleston Bar. Music by Franco Donatoni, David Grant, Christopher Wendell Jones, Salvatore Sciarrino, and Giacinto Scelsi.


En japonais

• Thursday, April 12, 2012
• 7:30 PM  9:00 PM
• Jennifer Norback Gallery (map)

Fonema consort presents a program honoring Japanese composers and the influence of Japanese culture in new music. Works by Pascal Dusapin, Dai Fujikura, Toshio Hosokawa, and Toru Takemitsu.


Saint Xavier University Residency Concert

• Monday, March 12, 2012
• 1:00 PM  3:00 PM
• Saint Xavier University, McGuire Hall (map)

Fonema Consort’s first annual residency concert at Saint Xavier University. Featuring the music of Luciano Berio, Pascal Dusapin, Kaija Saariaho, Salvatore Sciarrino, and Anton Webern. Premieres by student composers Stephen Moran and James Gradzinski.


Recitations

• Sunday, February 12, 2012
• 7:30 PM  9:00 PM
• No Exit Cafe (map)

Fonema Consort’s debut concert featuring the music of Georges Aperghis, Drew Baker, Dnaiel Dehaan, Toru Takemitsu, and Kaija Saariaho.